This work aims to answer the following questions:

• Do private pilots engage in a dangerous and risky activity?
• Is the instruction period more risky than the posterior flight activities of private pilots?
• Where should the focus be put in order to improve flight safety for private pilots?

This presentation is part of the assignments for the class "Building Data Products" of the Johns Hopkins' Data Sciences Specialization on Coursera. Neither the data, nor the findings of this study, should be used as the basis of any further work, as it's sole purpose is merely the familirization with some tools and techniques.

• The data set used for this work has been provided by America's authority on air incidents: the National Transport Security Bureau (NTSB).
• Covers all kind of flights (Commercial, Instruction, Military) in all contries that NTSB has performed investigations at.
• For this analysis, data will be filtered between 1st Jan 2000 and 31st December 2015, resulting in a total of 13153 observations, out of which 1657 are instructional flights.

No :)

This short analysis on the data available was meant to prove flight instruction is no more dangerous than other activities such as extreme gardening or bare-handed bird watching. However, lack of time on the author meant that the study could not be finalized as expected. However, the author would like to encourage everyone to experience the joys of flying, and the learning process involved.

Good landings!